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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Retrospect, Southern Africa and Beyond, 1979-1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bessie's father take care of?
(a) Gardens.
(b) Fields.
(c) Landscape.
(d) Race horses.

2. Bessie had stories to tell but couldn't write them. Why?
(a) No one was interested in them.
(b) She got angry over issues and her ideas died away.
(c) People ridiculed her.
(d) She panicked and felt dead inside.

3. What did the American woman send Bessie?
(a) A novel to read.
(b) Flowers.
(c) An invitation to her wedding.
(d) Happy little notes.

4. Bessie views the author, Pasternak, as the liberator of what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Children.
(c) Passion.
(d) Russia.

5. In Chapter 3, Bessie is surprised by how creative writing is often tied to what?
(a) Material wealth.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Fame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Brecht's "A Choice of Evils" published?

2. In "Makeba music," Bessie states that she believes in what?

3. What is the result of the casual sexual practices of the men of Botswana?

4. In "The woman from America," what about this woman and her husband poses the biggest threat to the village people?

5. According to Bessie, what had the blacks in Cape Town not made use of?

(see the answer key)

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